Today, our very own Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) announced that he will vote with the Democrats to stop the Republican filibuster of the small-business assistance bill in the Senate. According to Sen. Voinovich, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was threatening a filibuster to coerce the Democratic majority into allowing the Republicans to offer more amendments.
In Sen. Voinovich’s own words, the amendments “didn’t have anything to do with the bill“, and were just partisan messaging (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090903599_pf.html). Perhaps this is why George Voinovich famously announced his intention to retire from politics back in January of last year (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17324.html), after expressing frustration over how his party abandoned the same US auto makers that today, with our own Governor Ted Strickland, unveiled the newest car to be “Made in Ohio“: the Chevrolet Cruze.
This is why it is so important for you to come out and help elect Democrats in Ohio this year. Please attend at least one of the canvassing events this weekend (details below) to help us get SW Ohio out to the polls this year. We need to break records, and only with your help will we be able to.
If we don’t “Get Out the Vote”, we will be left with a group of lawmakers that will squander our precious time with partisan “messaging” instead of helping small-businesses and families. What other distractions from fixing our economy, balancing the budget, and rebuilding our infrastructure could a Speaker Boehner lead a Congress ruled by the GOP into? Oh, let me count the ways: Investigations into President Obama’s citizenship, Investigations into ACORN, de-funding programs created by the health care reform package, de-funding SCHIP, de-funding Medicaid, privatizing social security, and the list goes on and on. Notice that some of the items in that list consist of “de-funding” or “privatizing” something. This means job cuts, which means more people get placed onto the unemployment roles, which means higher unemployment.
This is why it is so important to work with your local canvassing office this weekend to ensure people are registered to vote, know how they can vote (early vote vs. polling place vote), and most importantly that they pledge to vote. The 2008 election was not the culmination of our best efforts, it was the proof-of-concept. Below are the office locations for canvasses coming up this weekend:
• Bond Hill, Jordan’s Crossing, 7030 Reading Road, Cincinnati, OH
• Woodlawn, 10036 Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, OH
• Northside, 4044 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
• Pleasant Ridge, 6109 Webbland Place, Cincinnati, OH
• Westwood, 3502 Boudinot Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
Canvasses usually start at 11:00am and 1:00pm. If these times don’t work for you, please visit an office when you can between 10am and 4pm and organizers will be able to find a way for you to help increase voter turnout this year.
Additionally, President Bill Clinton will be in town this weekend to headline a rally in support of Lee Fisher, Ohio’s Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. President Clinton knows that Lee Fisher will stand up and fight for Ohioans and Ohio’s interests in the U.S. Senate. He knows that Rob Portman will enable the Republican “No” machine that has been fighting tooth-and-nail to block all regulations and reform efforts intended to protect Ohio consumers, families, homeowners, and jobs, because that has been Rob Portman’s track record in Congress and while he worked in George W. Bush’s administration.
The details for the Bill Clinton event can be reached by visiting the following website:
http://action.fisherforohio.com/signup_page/clinton
Thank you,
Coleman Kane
Secretary, Hamilton County Young Democrats
